Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
The beautiful house has been.
The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles\'s basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why.
The man at Charles Blakey\'s door has a proposition almost too strange for words.
Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations